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on dev@openoffice.apache.org Peter submitted the following text proposal:


Dear Apache OpenOffice Users


Thank you for your interest in Apache OpenOffice and your on-going support
over the years. You may have heard through various channels that a bug
with OpenOffice occurs on macOS 11 / Big Sur.

When opening modern Microsoft Office Documents
(files that end with docx, xlsx, etc.) OpenOffice crashes.

There is no workaround within OpenOffice at this point, but we are 
going to fix the issue in a new minor release - 4.1.9, soon.

The main reason is to fix the bug on macOS 11 / Big Sur. We will also include
some other minor fixes in the release, so everyone has something
from this unfortunate incident. We know that this is a pressing
issue to our users, expect the release soon.

In order to identify the issue we took a closer look at our build
to exclude any issues with an error in prior releases. Next, we updated the
build to a newer SDK Issue to exclude any Issue in our support structures. We that our non-production ready but upcoming version 4.2.0 is not affected by this
Issue. In an effort over Christmas a comparison took place between the
4.2.0 and 4.1.8 Versions to locate the issue. We have found the code change that solves the crash on macOS 11.

We are testing the Solution at this point. If you want to join
the test of the new version of this fix, drop an email in English to
dev@openoffice.apache.org. The more environments we test the sooner
we can release.

The OpenOffice Project thanks Jim Jagelski for his endless effort during Christmas
time, and the French Forum users [...] who supported the development effort with dedicated testing.

All the best and stay healthy



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